SoullessAutomaton comments on Unspeakable Morality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 09 August 2009 03:23:31PM 1 point [-]

I would be surprised to find an omnivore who concluded that food animal conditions were bad enough to warrant not eating meat

I'm fairly sure conditions are easily that bad; what I'm undecided on is the moral weight that I place on the suffering of animals.

I also acknowledge that being an omnivore with a high desire for variety in food discourages me from trying too hard to make up my mind, because I estimate a non-trivial chance that my final decision would be to eliminate at minimum most mammal meat.

Comment author: Alicorn 09 August 2009 04:28:56PM 4 points [-]

For what it's worth, my dietary variety has increased since I became a vegetarian. This could, however, be because the switch coincided with ending my dependence on school cafeteria food and with my literal overnight development of a taste for vegetables. (It was the weirdest thing. I woke up one morning and wanted cauliflower.)